Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!